A few of my favorite things...

We hope you all had a happy Thanksgiving!! We had a fun time relaxing and enjoying time with family. We all have colds over here so we have been spending most of our time resting. I did however brave the Black Friday crowds and go shopping with my Mom at 3:30 Friday morning. I figured I am getting up every morning between 3:30-4:00 with Brooklyn so this wouldn't be much different. We ended up getting a lot of good bargains and most of my Christmas shopping is done :)

Anyway, on to Brooklyn. She is in to EVERYTHING!!! Why are parents excited when their children start crawling/walking by furniture? I turn my back for 1 minute and she literally can destroy the whole room, eat some remnant of something off of the floor that she shouldn't be eating, get into the DVD player and DVD's, empty out an entire cupboard, and then crawl away somewhere where I can't find her. I miss the days of setting her down in the room with some toys around her and walking away knowing she would be right there when I came back. Now every door has to be closed, the baby gate up, every shoe put away, etc. I feel like I am chasing her around most of the day...oh, but it is fun though :)

Here's some of Brooklyn's favorite things to do:

Unload any and every diaper bag, purse, backpack, grocery bag, etc. that she can find. She will not stop until every single item is taken out.


She also does the same thing with her toy basket. She will throw things out of it and the living room will look like this in 2 minutes.


Another favorite thing Brooklyn likes to do is giggle. She giggles so easily and sometimes over the most random things it is hilarious. Here is Brooklyn having fun with a Pringles can.

Sorry for the lack of pictures. I haven't taken any good ones recently so these will have to do!

Family pictures attempt

Hello everyone! It's been awhile since I have blogged because life has been busy. Brooklyn had another ear infection last week and then had a bad reaction to the antibiotic that she was one so we had one crabby, crabby baby for a week. I don't think we slept more than 4 hours a night for that week. It was a L O N G struggle to get through. Now, I think we are on the mend....until next week when she will probably catch some other bug and be sick again. I swear the kid was born with half an immune system. Whenever the doctor says, "Well, there's a 1% chance that..." it seems like Brooklyn always falls into that category and gets anything/everything possible. It's frustrating!!!

A few Sundays ago it was such a beautiful day we decided to go up to my folks and try take family pictures. Oh boy....was that ever a chore with 5 children under the age of 7!!! You can see below how well it went :)

So Addie and Brooklyn didn't want to look at the camera...

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so we thought we would try a leaf pile instead...Brooklyn did NOT like this idea!

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Now all the grandkids together. Addie and Brooklyn were

not too sure about this...

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Melting down...

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Nope, not going to happen!!!

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So then we were going to try get a good picture with the 3 of us and

Brooklyn decided to totally cheese out the remainder of our photo

shoot. No, this is not going to be our Christmas card (although I do laugh

every time I look at it!). We might have gotten one good one we might

be able to use.

Pictures were sure less of a chore before Brooklyn came along. I think we were all sweating by the time it was done and no successful grandchildren picture was captured. I guess that's the way it goes! Have a good week!